How Garbage is Becoming Our Next Source of Sustainable Energy

'Re-Nuble' is a startup that gives cities the ability to cut pollution and create their own sustainable energy. 

By now everyone has heard the startling statistic that over 40 percent of all food in the U.S. ends up in the trash. As landfills, and the greenhouse gas emissions they create, reach critical mass, a new need is opening up to discover all the ways we can turn trash into fuel. Starbucks is researching how to do it with their leftover pastries, aqua farms in Long Island are devising ways to do it with killer algae, and now one D.C.-based startup is hoping to do it with locally-sourced waste from small businesses.

Re-nuble is a for-profit social enterprise that promises to collect and reuse organic waste, including food and gardening trimmings. The Huffington Post reports that instead of dumping that garbage in a landfill, Re-Nuble will turn it into two different forms of energy― green energy that’s used for waste-free electricity consumption, and organic fertilizer used in sustainable farming.  Read Full Article Here.